Lucien Henri Grandgerard

Landscape , Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, Académie Julian

Signed lower left, 'F. Laval' for Fernand Laval (French, 1886-1966) and dated 1948. Born in Dordogne, Fernand Laval arrived in Paris at the age of 26 to study art and, during the e...

Signed lower right, 'Komaromi-Kacz' for Endre Komaromi-Kacz (Hungarian, 1880-1969) and titled, 'Molm'. Born in Komarom, Kacz was initially a pupil of Eduard Ballo, a painter of port...

Huile sur toile XIXe siècle Dim sans cadre 61/48 Dim avec cadre 75/61 Ecole française Signé Theodore Levigne en bas droite. Théodore Levigne est un peintre français, né le 17 novembr...

Théophile Clément BLANCHARD 1820 - 1849 Oil on canvas 27 x 40 cm (45 x 58 cm with the frame) Signed lower right "Blanchard" Very nice 19th century gilded wooden frame French painter, lithographer and illustrator, Théophile Clément Blanchard is part of of those painters of the romantic era who represented picturesque views of France like Alexis Daligé de Fontenay or Eugène Cicéri. These painters traveled a lot and sought out picturesque sites, particularly in Normandy, Brittany, Switzerland and the Pyrenees. Blanchard participated in the illustration of “Picturesque and Romantic Travels in the Old France”. But the works of this romantic painter are rare because Blanchard died very young at twenty-nine year old ! We still know of him, in particular, a view of Bugey (dated 1846) which is at the Louvre Museum and a “Delicious Landscape” (from the 1840s) at the Salies museum at Bagnères de Bigorre...